The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, November 10, 1921, Image 2
LOSSES TO LIVE STOCK ON OPEN RANGES CAN BE GREATLY REDUCED . * • » ’ . •• ■ »■? . ~? t ~. V. i iftf’ty'' '* ' v*'* "v ' M%:'<fagw-- • * * ■,, Cattle Grazing on a Weetern Forest Range. /I-rcpmol by tha Unlt»<l State* liapartini-nt of Ai[il ultuiaJ Tlit* utilization nl Hit* range in tin* national forests of the West for the pro duction of wool, beef, mutton and pork Is steadily Increasing from year to year. Handlers and stockmen are manifesting a growing appreciation of tin* advantages afforded by govern ment pasturage. And in Hie same de gree they are all too frequently neg lecting their stock after it Is turned out on the mountain ranges, state offi cials of tin* United States Department of Agriculture. On all open ranges there are many losses from predatory animals, poison ous plants, disease and ucddents, and llmllur dangers. Unless owners of live •lock campaign intelligently and perse reringly against such sources of disas ter, their herds and (locks usually suf fer a mortality of from 5 to 0 per cent pearly. To illustrate, one ranchman {razed Too head of cattle last siim ncr on a national forest without a •erder. As a result lie lost a dozen K>ud of steers worth s.">o each. Mortality High Last Year. Last year in forest district . r >, which includes California and western Ne ruda, the total live stock mortality la 17 forests amounted to I.HH entile, 5 Horses and 5,810 sheet). The total nillli jer of permittees who used the federal (ruKjiig lands aggregated 11,1120. They {razed 234,415 cattle and horses, 033,- 5(10 sheep and gouts and 5,500 hogs on the forest ranges. Two hundred and levenly-tlve cuttle died of disease; 299 rattle and 1,402 sheep were killed by fating poisonous plants; ill cattle, 5 * horses and 2,745 sheep were killed by predatory animals, and ISO cuttle and LOT! sheep succumbed to accidents md miscellaneous causes of death. This matter of live stock losses on the government ranges lias become of mcli imporlunce that the United States forest service made a detailed survey if the spoclffe causes of mortality mining live stock in tin* Stanislaus for est of California during a recent year. During the period under discussion a total of SSI head of live stock out of the ‘JO.t.HMI animals pastured in the for est lost their lives. Tile manner in which these losses were distributed hlkmid lie of value to stockmen and ranchers who ure interested in curtail ing these losses and who are anxious to know what the weak points in their present methods of management are. The losses among cattle were distrib uted as follows: Under one year old from blackleg, Its; over one year old from hhtekleg. 57; calves lo;s of mother from lark spur poisoning. 10; guttle losses from larkspur, Ml; other poisons, 21 ; preda tory animals. 20 ; accident, li.'l; in calv ing, li; lost, strayed or stolen, 74; from anthrax. 2; from eating giant powder from railroad construction rump. 5; from neck-and-spim* disease, 15; killed by hunters. 2; blind, aged, crippled and ruptured, 4; losses from contagions abortion 122; from lack of proper food and starvation, 14, anil from unknown causes. 337. Check P edatcry Animals. The losses from predatory animals ate being checked its rapidly as the federal agencies for this work are aide to cope with the situation. When ever tin* forest rangers note that the predatory animals are causing heavy damage, professional hunters are sent to destroy them. The losses due to disease and accident and miscellane ous causes could he substantially de creased if more herders were employed by the owners. Under conditions which obtain on the national forest ranges one or two borders could handle from five hundred to a thousand cattle with out particular difficulty. On the same scale that It pays to herd sheep on the government ranges it also Is profit able to herd cattle and, potentially, permittees probably will come to tills decision of their own accord. Poisonous plants and particularly larkspur are responsible annually for large losses of live stoek throughout the western sta'es There is only one effective system of ridding the ranges of larkspur and that is to grub the plants out season after season until finally the range will he free of this ©h.lect!onahle growth. The expecien.vs «»f a certain rancher whose range abuts one of the t'nllfor niu national forests, and who. under tin* supervision of the United States fo***»st service, lias been waging a win ning tight against larkspur during the last four years, are illuminative in this regard. After careful trial and study of tin* control methods and the results, tins stockman is enthusiastic about the efficiency ~f the plan und he urges ev ery other rancher or stockman who OOUs lutes ‘I : ifleo to iri v e tho wvstem of eradication u thorough und Impar tial trial. Ideal Pasturage Infested. In this instance the larkspur was prevalent lit large amounts on a range where the grazing was otherwise excep tionally good. The infested area was on a side hill where seepage from a spring near the top of the hill pro vided plenty of moisture, so that tile grass was unusually luxuriant at all times during the grazing period. The rancher hud to have a herder with the cattle constantly in order to keep them off the larkspur-infested area. Not only did lie lose the use of excel lent range, but he also was under ex tra expense to protect his cuttle from tin* poisonous plants. During the 1913 grazing season lie lost ten steers, which, despite the efforts of the herder, trespassed on the larkspur area and succumbed to the poisoning which re sulted. The following season, under .similar conditions, 24 head of valuable range cuttle were poisoned. The next year only five steers died from lurk spttr poisoning, while the following year the mortality aggregated eighteen head. In 1917 the larkspur eradication campaign was instituted, and us a con sequence of the work of that season the cattle losses were curtailed to only five animals. The next year tiie work was continued und not a single case of steer mortality from larkspur poison ing occurred. In 1919 only two steers died, while last yeur the mortality also was limited to two animals. Recently the larkspur area of the range has been grazed by a band of 2,000 sheep. One Hundred Acres Grubbed. The first season about one hundred acres of range were grulffted, the pol- | smious plants being eradicated with ; larkspur picks und scattered in ex posed places to dry in the sun. One mail could dig 1.71 acres a day. The total cost of grubbing the one hundred acres the first year • amounted to $450.30, an average of $4,50 an acre. Tin* losses of cattle were reduced from IS head the year before to 5 head the following season. The saving of 13 head of cattle was directly due to the larkspur eradication work. Esti mating these steers worth SSO apiece a saving of SOSO resulted, which paid all the expense of the grubbing anti left a balance of $199.70 to the credit of the work. The following season tli« range carried 50 more head of cattle as a result of the decrease in the amount and severity of the larkspur infection. In passing, it is worthy of mention that the larkspur picks are made from ordinary surface picks by drawing out one point to u chisel form about two inches wide, while the other point Is sharpened in a diamond shape. Ccn erall.v pruning shears and small hand axes ure used ill cutting out the brush and trees which obstruct the access of the workmen to the larkspur. Ordi narily an average workman can grub out from seventy to eighty larkspur plants nil hour. The last two seasons the grubbing work lias been continued, the chief attention being devoted to new areas, as the original one hundred acres are now practically free of any , larkspur. BUYING SUITABLE CHICKENS Possible for City Man to Select Hit Pullets From Live Poultry Shipped to Town. Where a town man has no time to go Into tlte country to buy his pullets it often is possible to choose suitable birds among the live poultry shipped Into the city markets. The advice of some experienced person should in* obtained Itefore buying, says the Uni ted States Department of Agriculture. Local poultry associations are glad to help prospective poultry keepers by putting them into touch with member* having stock for sale. The hoard of trade or tlte chamber of commerce often can bring poultry raiser and buyer together. FOWLS POISONED BY COCKLE Ohio Poultry Specialist Says Plant Af fects Nervous System, Caus ing Paralysis. liens fed liberally with wheat screenings in which there was a large amount of cockle have been reported as poisoned by the cockle. Prof. tl. S. Vickers, poultry specialist of the Ohio State university, reports one case that came under his observation during the middle of May, where 00 hens had died from this cause. The cockle as frets the nervous system causing s »v»m tests of the leg*' THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. GOOD HOME OF SIMPLE 0 ESI Gil Economy of Construction and Strength Are Features. HAS LARGE FRONT PORCH Floor Plana Show Convenient Arrange ment of Roomi—Represents ideally Efficient Type of Dwelling. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of buttd'ng, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as ICdltor, Author and Manufacturer, he ia. without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only inclose i.wo-cent stamp for reply. “In my own home 1 am king,” is tlte sentiment that makes every home owner thrill with pride. Independ ence und certainty are what every family want, and these can be ob tained through the ownership of a home. The mua who owns u home invariably makes the more reasonable citizen, because lie takes a deep inter est in civic affairs. 11 is taxes are an Important consideration in his life, and unless lie watches the affairs of his town, votes regularly and takes more than a newspaper interest in matters of state, he Is liable to tie affected quite keenly. Buying or building a home is a mat ter of Individual taste and require ments. Small families lean to the small home or bungalow type. Here they cun get four, live or six rooms, utnpie for their needs and on the same tioor. But there are many peo ple who want the bedrooms upstairs away from tlte noise und activity of rite living rooms. Moreover, the large family needs a large house, but in building this house they want perma nent comfort, not something that is pretty and freakish. Simplicity of design, economy of con struction and strength are the out standing qualities of the home shown fhd here. There is nothing pretentious about the exterior arrangement, yet it is far from Iteing an ordinary house. Set upon a brick foundation it has been built to take a very attractive rougli stucco tini.sh. Moreover, it lias, a feature that is important in all homes, a large front porch, in this case open. It can be very easily, screened during (he summer to make a sleeping porch and glazed in during lhe cold weather for a sun par lor of generous size. Stout stucco pillars support a half h!p roof with a \m\ ■' H a, ii c* -S I ' so ** Vs ‘o ' s *' f 5 z; *? J t — js i ~«o Ld First Floor Plan. /ilenslng exposed rafter effect. There is ample room for exterior adornment by lattice and trellis work which will greatly beautify the porch during the summer. Instead of wasting space for u vestibule, the front door has been placed to open directly. Into the large living room, which Is 13 feet 3 Inches by 23 feet, representing an area of over 300 square feet. This is an ex cellent room for recreation, reading, family council, entertainments, etc. and easily one of the most attractive parts of the whole house. To add *.o the comfort and homeliness, wiu- I (lows on inrec sides provide an I abundance of sunshine, making the I room warm and cheerful as well as spacious. To one side is n double open door way leading to the dining roomy This | room has been very well proportioned and has the added advantage of a large bay window. It is 13 feet 3 inches by 14 feet. Another single door opens from the living room into a small hall which leads upstairs. A small closet has been placed in this hall. Opening into the dining room on the opposite side of the house is the kitchen, built according to the latest developments in modern building Ideas. It is small, compact and com pletely equipped with sink and cup boards. A door opens out on to the small porch entry and another into the pantry. In all new houses the kitchen \ o / \ 32 O / o- / I 35 Ss q;o si kj jggy aSS ~ Y Second Floor Plan. is small, as it tins been realized after many years that the* housewife can ac complish her work in a small room Just us well and much easier than in a large oversized kitchen. A glance at the floor plans shows how extremely well arranged are these three rooms on the lower floor. Everything points to substantial comfort and plenty of room. On the second floor are found the bedrooms, three in all, with a sleeping porch in tiie rear above the kitchen. This provides in reality four good sized bedrooms with excellent light and ventilation, which, after all, are tlie two most important things in a bedroom. Each room gets light from windows on two sides. All of the bedrooms are fitted with space sav ing closets or wardrobes. The depth of these closets is about 18 inches, and the width about 20. Compared to the usual clothes closet several feet in depth, these space-saving garment carriers are a real economy. There is a high attic above which can lie divided into at least two more sleeping rooms. Above the second floor plate the siding is shingles. This is tite type of home many fam ilies want. This is what they hope to build some time this year or next, it represents an ideally efficient type of dwelling and can lie built for a reasonable amount because of the sim plicity of its design. There is every reason to believe that the long de layed building boom will start in earnest in early spring. Those who have their designs ready will get the Jump on tlie rest of the field and will not be liable to delay because of short age of workmen. Scottish Tongue Dying Out. The dying Scot tongue is shown in tlie last Scottish census. The number of females in tlie population exceeded that of males by 185,482. Persons aide to speak Gaelic only number 10,- 314, of whom 4,800 are in Ross-shirv. 4.000 in Inverness-shire, and 599 in Argyllshire. Outside these three coun ties only 195 persons have been re turned as speaking Gaelic but not English. Those able to speak Gaelic ami English number 151,159. A steady decline during tlie lust 30 years is shown by these figures. In 1891, 0.3 per tent of tlie total population of Scotland were able to talk Gaelic; the corresponding figure is now 3.3 per cent. Foregoing to Bed. The pupils in the sixtli grade of the Emerson School were Instructed to use tlie word "going" and “fore going" in sentences. No difficulty was had in using “going" correctly, but “foregoing" was more difficult. Finally one little fellow said he had a sentence. This is what he wrote; “The boy ate an apple foregoing tc i tied." —Indianapolis News. Never say “Aspirin” without saying “Bayer.” WARNING! 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Mr. Rusher was called to the tele phone. “I say,” asked a feminine voice, “are you going down our street tills morning in your motor car?” “No,” replied the astonished man. “But why do you ask?" “Oh. that's all right!” came in re lieved tones over the wire, “I only wanted to know if it would lie safe to send my little girl round I lie corner for a spool of thread.” He Was Doing His Best. Mother was teaching 5-year-old Bobby geography. She had come to the Sahara desert. “Now, say it — Sahara,” she prompted him. “Hara," replied Bobby. “No. not Hara —Sahara, don’t you see?” said mother patiently. “Now say it.” * Again Hobby replied, “Hara.” That kept up for some time, until finally Bobby, worn out, exclaimed indignantly: “Well, mother, didn’t I I say Hara?” —Youth’s Companion. He Was Insured. The engine of a passenger train j broke down midway between two sta- i tions. and, as the express was ex- j pected, tlie passengers were allowed to get out of the cars, as an accident seemed inevitable. Everybody jumped out, with the ex ception of one old man. The other passengers thought, he must be mad, but lie waved an in surance ticket in their faces and cried: “Ha, ha ! I’m not so simple! A nice thing for the company to see me with an insurance ticket and then expect me to run away at the first sign of trouble! I shall stay here, and if tile company lias to pay up, that’s their lookout, not mine!” —Pittsburgh Clironicle- Telegraph. This little bit of advice may help you regain your Health, Strength and Vitality Thousands of people suffer from nervous ness. They are run down and miserable without knowing the reason why. They do not stop to think that much of their trouble may be caused by drinking tea and coffee which contain the drugs, thein and caffeine. 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Postum Cereal (in packages of larger bulk, for those who prefer to make the drink while the meal is being prepared) made by boiling for 20 minutes. Postum for Health “There’s a Reason” ' FRANCES E. WILLARD MUSEUM | Little Schoolhouse Near Janesville, Wis., Dedicated to Memory of * Great Temperance Leader. Log cabins and marble palaces courthouses and round towers are now and again turned into museums in the memory of some historic person. More rarely the building is a schoolhouse, blit such is the case with the hew Frances E. Willard museum. The lit tle country schoolhouse near Janes ville, Wis., lias recently been dedicated by followers of the American temper ance leader, among them former pu pils of Miss Willard’s in Wesleyan seminary and at Northwestern univer sity, and national officers of the Wom an's Christian Temperance union. The schoolhouse is far from imposing. Miss Willard referred to it once as “a sort of big ground-nut,” but it symbolizes the progress of a child who came into a wilderness with her pioneer family, and through her good work gained a place for herself in the Hall of Fame at Washington, the only woman so honored. How Could She Help It? “How did this vase get broken, Mary?” "It fell off the pedestal, ma’am.” “How did you upset tHe pedestal?” “I never touched it. The chair bumped into it, ma’am.” “And did you push the chair?” “I did not, ma’am. It was the table done that. All I did was to push the sofa up against the table. An' good ness knows I can't see what’s a goin’ to happen that far off!” The Great Obstacle. “Wife has been pestering at me con i siderably of Jute to sell out and move j to town,” said Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “Tlie children yelled like catamounts for the change whenever they happened to think about it.. And I was pretty nigli on the p’int of doing so last month, but just then some fel ler told me it was almost Impossible to raise (logs in town.”—Kansas City Star. Tlie avarice of tlie miser may be termed tlie grand sepulchre of all ids other passions. Success is a thing that some' are content to .envy in others —and some achieve for themselves.